9.06.2010

Cultural meetings & Prejudices

When i came in Copenhagen i was surprised of citizens tend to put everywhere a danish flag..even in stickers in their kitchen's cabinets..
That is a custom, a tradition which comes in contrast with my customs, my values, my traditions. Such stories we had to tell, and discuss on, working in pairs, and analyze these based on the definition of "cultural meeting". And then students had to answer questions up to of what are they proud regarding their country, what do they think about the other countries and what students believe that others believe about first's country? In few words, we had to search for prejudices and pre-understandings that others have about us and via versa..Many people believe that danish people are "cold" while others support that spanish tend to be "let's do it tomorrow" people..

Guess who...?
All students sitting in a circle. We had to choose 5 people from the circle that we think-guess that they have some special properties..such as like cooking, have a big family, be patient etc. Then we all had to stand up and walk in the crowd, find these people and tell them which property we attributed to and why. That was pretty funny, trying to guess something for somebody just from prejudice and pre understanding.

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